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The latest Soyuz revision is ~$50m per launch, it has a payload less than half of a Falcon 9 that lands on a droneship, and ~2/3rd of a Falcon 9 that returns to launch site. Making it twice the cost per kg. The highest flight rate it has ever achieved has been 2/month. It has a 96% success rate.

The latest Falcon 9 revision is ~$67m per launch. Lately it flies every ~3 days. Over the past year it has flown ~100 times. It has a 99.4% launch success rate, and a 98% landing success rate.

Clearly this shows that the Russians are superior.

>The latest Falcon 9 revision is ~$67m per launch

And that is the price, the cost is unknown but likely lower.

Yeah, the internal cost is believed to be ~$30m, but I didn't compare on that number since we don't have a well known number for Soyuz's internal cost.

I don’t know what I’m talking about. Thanks for the info.

Props for replying

Sounds like the Russians could clean up in space-launch market. Why aren't they?

Interesting. What is this amazing Russian rocket that can put 200 metric tons in Low Earth Orbit while being expendable?

Show me anyone that _ever_ got a cost per kg to leo cheaper than spacex

Good thing that falcon 9 is already very much less than "half" the price.

And starship should be utilized fully will probably ven cheaper for the same mass-to-orbit